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Series of photographs showing increased magnification of a butterfly wing. SecretDisc/Shaddack/Michael Apel/Wikicommons

Surface Tension

A memoir of New York, music, anxiety, and love
Michael W. Clune
Lou Reed and Robert Quine, ca. 1981. Courtesy Sylvia Reed

Let It Reed

A biography captures a musician’s personae, obsessions, and connection to New York
Hanif Abdurraqib
Anna May Wong in Daughter of the Dragon, publicity still, 1931. Wikicommons

Seeing and Being Scene

A new biography of Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong
Phoebe Chen
David Benjamin Sherry, Saguaro Field, Tucson, Arizona, 2013. Courtesy: Morán Morán

Already, I Was Disappointed by a Lot

Fiction meets PR in these dispatches about fashion and suburban blight
Ann Manov
Sea Hyun Lee, Beyond Red, 2023, oil on linen, 78 3/4" × 78 3/4". Courtesy: the artist and CHOI&CHOI Gallery

Factory of Facts

Ed Park’s conspiracy-laden alternative history
Fiona Maazel
paper trail
Leslie Jamison. Photo: Grace Ann Leadbeater
Leslie Jamison on motherhood and divorce; two California bookstores are up for sale
culture
Sly Stone with daughter Nove, ca. 1980.
A memoir of the Family Stone
Carl Wilson
fiction
Illustration from Edwin Thomas Sachs's Sleight of Hand (L. Upcott Gill, London, 1885).
The paradox of Zadie Smith’s new historical novel
Ayesha A. Siddiqi
fiction
Yoichiro Yoda, Jackson Theatre, 2018, oil on canvas, 20" × 24". Courtesy: the artist
A novel of simmering cinephilia
Melissa Anderson
fiction
D’Ascenzo Studios, Cotton Field (broken), Philadelphia, 1932, vitreous enamel on plate glass, 12" × 9 1/4". Courtesy: Yale University
Teju Cole’s new novel of mourning and premonition
Blair McClendon
culture
Image of Julia Fox from her Instagram feed, 2023. Photo: © Julia Fox
How It Girl Julia Fox became a memeable muse
Katie Kadue
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